Word: anthropologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making a five-year study of the collectives, industrialization need not destroy the movement. For one thing, factories provide the prestige of work for the aging, a group that did not exist in the youthful pioneer days. The emotional problems of the elderly can be serious: according to Social Anthropologist Melford Spiro, loss of ability to compete with younger men at heavy farm work is a major cause of psychological insecurity in older chaverim (members...
...Thompson would just be a duplication." One reason for Thompson's insistence on selling the full-service approach is that the agency maintains the most comprehensive-and expensive-range of specialists in the ad business. Its staff of 6,500 includes two full-time psychologists and a cultural anthropologist, as well as 219 vice presidents. For every $1,000,000 in billings, Thompson employs 6.7 people, v. 4.3 for Ogilvy & Mather and 3.2 for Wells, Rich, Greene...
...report "Gulf and Angola", published in the Harvard University Gazette of October 6th, I was very pleased to read than Mr. Stephen Farber believes that Harvard's "Primary Strength and influence" in African affairs might "lie in its capacity for teaching and research." Neverthless, as an anthropologist with some knowledge of European and American research on Africa. I found a number of points in Mr. Father's report which raise questions about his own summer researchers and the cogency of his entire point of view...
...woman who became famous by studying the life of adolescents in Samoa is now examining her own youth. At 70, Anthropologist Margaret Mead is publishing her memoirs. The greatest influence on her life, she recalls, was her relationship with her paternal grandmother, who moved in with Margaret's father and his bride after their marriage and was given the best room in whatever house they lived in till her death some 30 years later. A former teacher, she "taught me observation-she started me observing my young sisters." Now a grandmother herself, Mead insists that "children need three generations...
Some behavior experts use "pseudo-mathematical decorations" to make their work look scientific, Andreski says. In analyzing myths, for example, Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss portrays a fight between two animals by writing "jaguar = anteater (-1)." If that sign is interpreted in its mathematical sense, the sentence means that a jaguar equals one divided by an anteater-a conclusion that Andreski describes as "phantasmagoric." Yet such signs work like "hallucinogenic incantations, inducing fantasies that the mind has been expanded to computer-like dimensions...